Word: caucasus
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...storms began in early April, when hot, dry winds off the Central Asian plateau, melting the skimpy snow cover, swept across a 1,500-mile belt extending from the Caspian Sea through the Caucasus, southern Ukraine and Crimea to Moldavia. The parched earth turned to dust, then rose in sun-obscuring clouds...
...charwoman on a platform in the Kursk railway station just before a train to the Urals pulled out. Inside the boxes were 1,000 small icons, 1,000 prayer leaflets, and 2,400 little crosses on chains, which the charwoman was to have taken with her to the Caucasus. Artist Labzin turned out to be a hardened criminal in Soviet eyes; he had two previous convictions for "underground printing of religious literature,'' which had been distributed all over Russia by a well-organized network...
...Great's palace at Leningrad, then ecstatically describes panoramas of steel plants, oil rigs, coal trains. There are sequences of carefree Russians churning up the Volga in a motor launch, of the "volunteers" who whistle while they work to make Siberia a mountain greenery home. In the Caucasus, bikini-clad beauties splash in the Black Sea. It is enough to make the St. Petersburg, Fla. Chamber of Commerce ask Washington for equal time...
...with the white goatee and the riverboat gambler's eyes stepped onto the speaker's platform at Moscow's Central Committee meeting. Ex-Premier Nikolai Bulganin, still a Central Committee member though banished to the chairmanship of an obscure regional economic council in the north Caucasus, spoke his cringing words on the fourth day of debate...
...outlining procedures to be followed for executions and deportations in the Baltic states (an estimated 1,420,000), was signed by him. He shot or shipped away whole Soviet nationalities-the Crimean Tartars (200,000), the Volga Germans (500,000), the Chechen-Ingush (410,000) of the Caucasus. When the Red army rolled back the Germans, Serov crushed resisters behind the lines. Appointed Stalin's top cop in Berlin, he kidnaped German rocket scientists, dragooned slave labor for the East German uranium mines. It was at about that time that he bragged of knowing how to break every bone...